Thanksgiving Math Project - Plan a Thanksgiving Dinner Math Activity - Decimals

Create a real-world math experience for your students with this engaging Thanksgiving math project. This festive plan a Thanksgiving dinner math activity is perfect for the days leading up to the big holiday.

Engage your students in meaningful standards-based practice during this festive time of year!

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This Thanksgiving math project is an engaging way for students to practice standards-based decimal operation skills.

Your students will love planning their own Thanksgiving dinner. They decide on everything from the food to the recipes and even the groceries they will need.

Bring the holiday meal to life in your classroom with this festive plan, a Thanksgiving dinner activity.

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✅This festive and engaging Thanksgiving math project includes various decimal skills practice options…

• Calculate food and serving amount pages
• Shopping list pages (including comparing grocery ad prices)
• Calculate total calorie pages
• Calculate individual calorie pages
• 2 different grocery ads with photographs and decimal prices
• 15 simple and traditional Thanksgiving recipes for students to use when meal planning
• Optional letter to send home for family recipes
• Optional shopping list that does not include price comparisons
• Answer key (when applicable)
• Print and digital options

Use all of the pages in this fun and festive plan fora Thanksgiving dinner activity, or pick and choose the ones you want to use! Make it work for your classroom!

✅This no-prep Thanksgiving math project can be used in your upper-grade classroom in various ways…

• Morning work
• Early finishers
• Math centers
• Fall celebrations
• Thanksgiving party
• Group work
• Small groups
• Decimal skills review
• Sub plans

Don’t give your students just another boring Thanksgiving math worksheet! Engage students with this decimals math project. This plan fora Thanksgiving dinner activity is easy to use and perfect for the fall season. 

This Thanksgiving math project provides students with real-world math practice. They plan the meal, then use their lists to compare grocery prices and decide where they want to shop. Such an engaging way provides students with a deeper understanding of how decimal skills are used in the real world. 

Want to make it more personal? Send home the included letter and let students bring in beloved family recipes. Students can use these recipes in their meal plans. Your students will be even more engaged and excited when they can make a personal connection to the math they are working on.

This plan for a Thanksgiving dinner math activity is just what your class needs to make lasting memories this school year!

❤️Take a look at what other teachers are saying about this Thanksgiving math project…

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Rachel K. says, “My students and I loved using this resource before Thanksgiving break. It was a great extension of our in-class learning.”

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Tony D. says, “This resource was challenging and great for students - It really did give them an idea of what planning a meal is like for the adults. I actually did this activity during a side-by-side when some parents came in and worked with their child. I made sure parents said that this really is what it's like to plan the meal. Great activity!”

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Mallory T. says, “Very engaging hands-on activity for my students!” 

✅This Thanksgiving math project covers the following 5th grade standards…

CCSS5.NBT.A.3

CCSS5.NBT.A.7

Grab this plan a Thanksgiving dinner activity today for some extra decimal standards-based math fun!

✅Looking for this project with whole numbers? Check it out here!

• Thanksgiving Dinner Math: Whole Numbers

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